Wheel-rim.



, 'Nth 852,175. PATENTED APR. 30, 1907..

T. FURLONG.

WHEEL RIM.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 26,1908.

Witnesses Invsnhov:

Ass'g's.

- m Thomas Furlon by MW@ KDA/MQW UNITED STATES PTENT OFFICE..

THOMAS FURL'ONG, oF sT. LOUIS, ',inssounr.

WHEEL-BM.

Specication of Letters Patent. i

- Patented April so, 1907.

Application led May 26| 1906.. Serial No. 318.912.

To all whom it may concern: y Be itknown thatI I, THOMAs FURLONG, a citizenof the United States, residing at' St.

Louis," Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement 1n Wheel-Rims, of

which the following is a full, clear, land exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap ertains to make and use the same, reference eing-had to the ac companying drawings, forming part of this Ispecification, in which-q A -Figure 1 is a transverse sectional vie through a ortion of a wheel provided with a rim embo ying the features of my invention Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thev removable flange; and' Fig. 3 is a perspective view vof the flangedjwe/hportion of the rim': l

This invention relates to wheels that are providedwith pneumatic tires or tires of thick rubber and particularly to wheels having metallic rims provided with flanges which receive a solid base portion of the tire.

The object of my invention is to provide a i metallic wheel rim of the character referred to in which one flange of the rim is removable and is provided with meansfor preventing it from. being displaced relatively tothe co-operating portion of the rim, independently of the bolts which hold said llange in place.

Referring to the drawings which represent the preferred forml of'iny invention, 1 designates the wooden felly `of a wheel to which my improved metallic rim is secured by bolts 2. Said rim consists of a web portion 3 prolvided with a flange 4 and a co-operating removable flange 5 between which the solid base portion 6 of the tire .is confined. The

removable flange 5 is provided with an inwardly extending flange or'li 7 which conweb portion -and also through the base portion 6 ofthe, tire thereby producing a sec-- tional rim which is as solid and strong as a rim inwhich both flanges are formed inte ral with 'the' web portion of the -rim. Pre erably, the base portion of the tire is rovided with metal sleeves- 11 through w lch the bolts 10 extend and-these sleeves are a trii'ie shorter than the Width of the base portion ofV the tire so that when the nutson the bolts v are tightened to secure the removable flange in place, portions of the base of the tire will be squeezed in between the flanges andthe, ends of said sleeves.

" While I have herein shown the removable flange as being provided with two lugs 8 that are located diametrically o posite each other it will, ofcourse, be un erstoodft4 t the number of lu could be varieiis s irit of my invention. Furthermore s ould be understood that the lugs could be formed on the web portion 3 and the notches be formed in the inwardly projecting lip o f the removable flange without departing from without departing from the the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what 'I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: i

Vand the location o same A wheel comprisinga felly having a flat A face metal rim connected thereto, said rimbeing providedwith an integralflange, a removable flan e, a tire having a solid rectan-` gular-shaped ase portionconfined between said flanges, metal sleeves extendin transversely through saidbase portion an of less length than the width of said portion, bolts extending -through said sleeves and through the flanges, and nuts on the outer ends of said bolts; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature, in the-presence of two witnesses, this twenty-third ay of May 1906.

THOMAS FURLONG.

lVlitnesses:

` WELLS L. CHURCH,

GEORGE BAxEwELL. 

